~ George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Maybe, maybe not.
I try to think before I open my mouth in anger – to weigh out the pros and cons, the effectiveness of my speech. Will my words move the ball downfield for moi? Will they hurt or help my case? I’ve learned to do that in writing this here little blog too.
My ire doesn’t evaporate quickly. So, what I say, when and if I choose to give voice to my anger, will be diplomatically phrased and free of passive/aggressive petulance but the wrath remains.
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
and that’s all I have to say about THAT.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
~ Mark Twain
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.
~ D.D. Barant, Dying Bites
I, on the other hand, am generally afflicted with the the 3:00 am rages. You know, those old, moldy, still unsettled indignations and, of course the execrable, truth and democracy averse Shit House Prez and his Republi/Fascist renfields.
If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity. ~ Albert Einstein
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.
~ Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes
The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.
~ Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
The bad news is nothing lasts forever,
The good news is nothing lasts forever.
~ J. Cole
Not even this horrific, subnormal Republi/Fascist Trump/Putin age.
Well, there is the earth and sky, though with he who so famously sang those words now the CEO of a multi-national tech corporation I'm thinkin' it may indeed be just dust in the wind.
ReplyDeletejesus, that tune was ABSO unavoidable when I was out on the road in the '70s. We mocked it relentlessy when it came on the Trabant's sound system. Deservedly so.
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